We started our day with a walk on the LaJolla Shores beach where we saw tons of surfers, mostly older than us. Nice way to start the holiday, I should think–surfing. It wasn’t a bad way to start even if we were just walking on the beach.

Here’s a pic C took with his iPhone:

Later we went to C’s brother’s house for the family dinner. A mass of Dell’Acquas at table:

Lots of good food and a pleasant enough evening for the most part, but a bit of a scare when Lynn (mother) took a nasty fall after dinner when she missed a step outside. Bad bump on the knee and an ugly scrape on her arm. Luckily, nothing broken (she got xrays the next day). Now if she actually uses the cane she’s been told to use…

Beating out (some of) the hoards and probably denying some kid his much-wished-for-under-the-tree item, C and I gifted ourselves yesterday. There’s only one word for it: Wii!!!!!

We got the sports game with the console and it is so much fun (and very odd)! The cordless remote vibrates in your hand at times like when you make “contact” with a ball. You bowl by doing the underhand bowling motion (it also recognizes when you put spin on the ball), golf by holding the remote like a club and swinging (you can hook/slice), tennis recognizes forehand and backhand, and baseball pitches overhand and you swing the remote like a bat to hit. I haven’t tried boxing yet, but for that you use two remotes which are connected to each other.

Spooky fun how it works.

Here is C playing baseball:

While I’m swamped at work today, I’m playing hooky next week. Guess what I’ll be doing.